<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384743" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Two Nights</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Suggested by the lives of Napoleon and Josephine.) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ONE night was full of rapture and delight-<br>Of reunited arms and swooning kisses, <br>And all the unnamed and unnumbered blisses<br>Which fond souls find in love of love at night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heart beat with heart, and each clung into each<br>With twining arms that did but loose their hold<br>To cling still closer; and fond glances told<br>These truths for which there is no uttered speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was sweet laughter and endearing words, <br>Made broken by the kiss that could not wait, <br>And cooing sounds as of dear little birds<br>That in spring-time love and woo and mate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And languid sighs that breathed of love's content<br>And all too soon this night of rapture went.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One night was full of anguish and of pain, <br>Of nerveless arms and mockery of kisses; <br>And those caresses where one sick heart misses<br>The quick response the other cannot feign. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hands idly clasped and unclasped, and lost hold, <br>And the averted eyes that turned away, <br>And in whose depths no love nor longing lay, <br>The saddest of all truths too plainly told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was salt sorrow and the gall of tears, <br>Some useless words that ended in a moan, <br>And a dull dread of long unending years<br>When one must walk forever more alone.<br>Deep shuddering sighs told more than lips could say; <br>And the long night of sorrow wore away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384743" data-title="Two Nights de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="(Suggested by the lives of Napoleon and Josephine.) I. ONE night was full of rapture and delight- Of reunited arms and swooning kisses, And all the unnamed and unnumbered blisses Which fond souls find in love of love at night. Heart beat with..."></div> </div> </div>

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